Humans created the computer as a calculating machine and later as a technology that processes information using logic. While they were aware of the transformation laws in the physical reality of their lives, they did not realize it as an essential part in the creation of machine processed data. Data structures as they called it never resembled the basic logic of a physical or biological structure, that by which the identity rule of transformation was portrayed . "The identity rule of transformation" was not in existence as a fundamental law or a law whatsoever at the time that The Matrix movie was created, however the notion of machines as self generated entities was already well established and described by many science fiction narratives. The law of identity as a physical entity was never realized while the advancement of man made machines were well on the way to become artificial intelligence operated machines. Machine learning and deep learning in particular incited the R&D in the direction of accumulating data which was already used as a powerful driving force for wealth in the economy of the first twenty years of the twenty first century. The technology of cloning data and distributing it at the wish of the cloning agent such as searching engines and the social media owners, was about to take its major strides, but one major economic event in the financial world was about to seed the innovation which would eventually stop the horrific scenario plotted by the monstrous evolution of the three cloning agents, Facebook, Google and Amazon. That event was the mortgage backed securities meltdown, and the seed was Bitcoin.
The identity rule of transformation assert that I (identity) of A is bigger than the collection of all its attributes. "The whole is bigger than all its parts" is the popular term of that same idea, but it was never realized in any formal way. The first step was to realize the idea of identity such that allow for a whole to exist as many thus different wholes. However that is where the formal conceptual development of identity stopped and gave way to mystical notions for the meaning and more so the realization of plural and divers notion of the whole. That formal realization never came about but as happens all along of human history, an actual implementation was realized. That implementation uncovered the second part of the identity rule of transformation, that of the transformation itself. While "identity" as a term describe some unique single whole entity, "transformation" asserts a complete expression of the same expression as a different expression. Assuming that "identity" is what need to be transformed it is clear that this transformation must be realized in a different medium of expression. and there must be some sort of channel to transmit the information that is being transformed.